# Hyderabad Police Traffic police vs State of Andhra Pradesh

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## Report card

By judgment dated 5 April 2013 in Criminal Appeal No. 539 of 2013 (arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 6354 of 2012), the Supreme Court of India (Coram: Dipak Misra, K. S. Radhakrishnan, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 2 police personnel, namely: Traffic police, Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad; Traffic police, Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad.

- Register number: TG 14 CW 0002
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal No. 539 of 2013 (arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 6354 of 2012) / AIR 2013 SC 1677
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: Dipak Misra, K. S. Radhakrishnan, JJ.), 5 April 2013
- Officer(s) at the material time: Traffic police, Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad; Traffic police, Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The accused had demanded a bribe of Rs.100/- for not booking a case for traffic violation and, in fact, no case was registered.” (at para 8)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 1 year.
- Present status of the proceedings: No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/88786044/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2013-0018)

**Record:** CW-2013-0018 (compiler id CWC-0741); case GAP2-003
**Title:** Hyderabad Police Traffic police vs State of Andhra Pradesh
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: Dipak Misra; K. S. Radhakrishnan
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 539 of 2013 (arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 6354 of 2012) / AIR 2013 SC 1677
**Judgment:** 2013-04-05 (2013, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1994-01-04 (1994)
**Place:** Hyderabad, Telangana; city town: Hyderabad; police station or unit: Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad; force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** bribery pc act
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** PC Act 1988 s.7; PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d); PC Act 1988 s.13(2); IPC 34
**Officers (gated display forms):** Traffic police, Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad; Traffic police, Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad (2 in record)
**Victims:** Hyderabad man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 1 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On 4 January 1994 the two traffic policemen stopped lorry driver \[name withheld\]. A Hyderabad man at Santoshnagar crossroads, Hyderabad, on the pretext of a no-entry violation, seized his vehicle documents and demanded Rs. 100 to return them without booking a case. An ACB trap caught the co-accused accepting the marked Rs. 100 inside Yakutpura Traffic Police Station in the appellant's presence. The Special Judge convicted both, and the Andhra Pradesh High Court maintained the conviction while reducing sentence. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, holding the appellant intercepted the vehicle, was on duty at the spot and shared common intention under Section 34 IPC, sustaining 6 months' SI under Section 7 and 1 year's SI under Section 13 PC Act.

> The accused had demanded a bribe of Rs.100/- for not booking a case for traffic violation and, in fact, no case was registered.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/88786044/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** corruption
**admin subcategory:** bribery_pc_act
**allegations:** {'category': 'Other', 'primary': True, 'position': 'Material fact supported', 'position_explainer': 'Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.', 'official_finding_relation': 'supports allegation'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 8
**display title redacted:** Hyderabad Police Traffic police vs State of Andhra Pradesh
**followup history:** {'date': '2026-09-19', 'scope': 'Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass', 'method': 'skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)', 'result': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': None, 'action_type': 'Conviction', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': 'AIR 2013 SC 1677', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2013-04-05', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': 'AIR 2013 SC 1677', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/88786044/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** bribery pc act
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** SC judgment verified; PC Act bribery conviction of two Hyderabad traffic policemen upheld (state now Telangana).
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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